Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 60 64
Rank change year-on-year -58 +4 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,443 1,855 3,658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.58% 4.25% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 4.57% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 997 1,071 2,757
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,096 40,631 82,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.48% 93.01% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42,564 22,679 59,766
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -56 1,313 £75,000 - 717
London +5 698 £87,500 +2.94% 267
UK excluding London -125 623 £67,500 -3.57% 512
Work from Home -34 621 £70,000 -2.77% 369
North of England -52 289 £69,310 -3.74% 150
North West -57 144 £70,000 -3.45% 79
South East -105 133 £72,500 +7.41% 146
Yorkshire -48 94 £69,310 -4.40% 38
South West -85 62 £52,500 -23.39% 65
Midlands -103 58 £67,500 +3.85% 68
North East +5 51 £65,000 +30.00% 33
East of England -26 41 £60,100 +4.52% 46
West Midlands -64 36 £75,000 +7.14% 28
Scotland -88 32 £62,500 -17.52% 22
East Midlands -80 21 £67,250 +5.49% 40
Wales -31 9 £53,171 +2.25% 11
Northern Ireland -32 7 £62,500 +13.64% 8
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £35,000 - 1

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.18%) Apache
2 17 (1.18%) Confluence
3 15 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 14 (0.97%) IIS
5 13 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 12 (0.83%) JBoss
7 9 (0.62%) CMS
8 7 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.28%) Appian
9 4 (0.28%) Camunda
9 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
10 3 (0.21%) nginx
10 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Drupal
Applications
1 12 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.49%) Maya
4 6 (0.42%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.14%) Endur
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.069%) Actimize
5 1 (0.069%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.069%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.069%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.069%) Quorum
5 1 (0.069%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.069%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 777 (53.85%) AWS
2 600 (41.58%) Azure
3 305 (21.14%) GCP
4 241 (16.70%) Serverless
5 152 (10.53%) SaaS
6 122 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
8 115 (7.97%) GitHub
9 104 (7.21%) Amazon S3
10 84 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
11 83 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 73 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
13 68 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
14 60 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
15 57 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
16 47 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 45 (3.12%) Datadog
18 44 (3.05%) Azure AKS
19 42 (2.91%) OpenShift
20 41 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.02%) Broadband
2 15 (1.04%) Network Security
3 12 (0.83%) HTTP
4 9 (0.62%) DNS
5 7 (0.49%) AMQP
5 7 (0.49%) Firewall
5 7 (0.49%) Internet
5 7 (0.49%) VPN
6 6 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.42%) MQTT
7 5 (0.35%) DHCP
7 5 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.28%) LTE
8 4 (0.28%) SNMP
8 4 (0.28%) WAN
9 3 (0.21%) Modbus
10 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.14%) RFID
10 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (13.24%) NoSQL
2 173 (11.99%) PostgreSQL
3 161 (11.16%) MongoDB
4 93 (6.44%) SQL Server
5 77 (5.34%) MySQL
6 69 (4.78%) Relational Database
7 60 (4.16%) DynamoDB
8 57 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
10 37 (2.56%) Redis
11 35 (2.43%) BigQuery
12 33 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (2.01%) Big Data
14 23 (1.59%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.11%) Pinecone
16 15 (1.04%) Power BI
17 11 (0.76%) Data Lake
17 11 (0.76%) DB2
18 9 (0.62%) Tableau
19 7 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 186 (12.89%) Git
2 126 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 124 (8.59%) GitLab
4 50 (3.47%) JIRA
5 49 (3.40%) TeamCity
6 35 (2.43%) Cucumber
7 33 (2.29%) CircleCI
8 32 (2.22%) Cypress.io
9 31 (2.15%) JUnit
10 21 (1.46%) Mockito
11 20 (1.39%) Maven
12 19 (1.32%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.32%) Claude Code
12 19 (1.32%) Selenium
13 17 (1.18%) Vite
14 16 (1.11%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.62%) JMeter
16 8 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.55%) Postman
16 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 416 (28.83%) Finance
2 317 (21.97%) Social Skills
3 153 (10.60%) Banking
4 110 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.58%) Law
6 91 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (4.71%) Retail
8 67 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (3.26%) Telecoms
10 46 (3.19%) Financial Institution
11 38 (2.63%) Back Office
12 22 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.32%) Billing
13 19 (1.32%) Legal
14 18 (1.25%) Advertising
15 15 (1.04%) Marketing
16 14 (0.97%) Games
17 13 (0.90%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.90%) Front Office
18 10 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 495 (34.30%) Developer
2 384 (26.61%) Senior
3 275 (19.06%) Software Engineer
4 212 (14.69%) Architect
5 186 (12.89%) Lead
6 123 (8.52%) Full-Stack Developer
7 118 (8.18%) Java Developer
8 116 (8.04%) Senior Developer
9 98 (6.79%) Java Engineer
10 97 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 87 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
12 83 (5.75%) .NET Developer
13 60 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 54 (3.74%) Lead Developer
14 54 (3.74%) Software Developer
15 51 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
16 45 (3.12%) Principal Engineer
17 43 (2.98%) Java Software Engineer
17 43 (2.98%) Senior Java Engineer
18 42 (2.91%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (22.45%) React
2 300 (20.79%) .NET
3 279 (19.33%) RESTful
4 245 (16.98%) Node.js
5 225 (15.59%) Spring
6 222 (15.38%) REST
7 203 (14.07%) Spring Boot
8 181 (12.54%) Kafka
9 113 (7.83%) AngularJS
10 94 (6.51%) .NET Core
11 93 (6.44%) gRPC
12 80 (5.54%) HTML
13 74 (5.13%) ASP.NET
14 73 (5.06%) Vue
15 71 (4.92%) CSS
16 67 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
17 65 (4.50%) .NET Framework
18 55 (3.81%) OAuth
19 52 (3.60%) Middleware
20 49 (3.40%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 414 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 251 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 87 (6.03%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (4.16%) Greenfield Project
6 55 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (3.19%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (3.12%) Over-the-Top Content
9 39 (2.70%) Algorithms
10 38 (2.63%) Data Structures
11 30 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.80%) Blockchain
13 25 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.66%) AI Agents
14 24 (1.66%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (1.46%) Public Cloud
16 20 (1.39%) Virtual Team
17 17 (1.18%) Web3
18 16 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 77 (5.34%) Linux
2 42 (2.91%) Windows
3 20 (1.39%) Unix
4 15 (1.04%) Android
5 7 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.35%) CentOS
6 5 (0.35%) Debian
6 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.069%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (49.27%) CI/CD
2 573 (39.71%) Agile
3 545 (37.77%) DevOps
4 526 (36.45%) Software Engineering
5 389 (26.96%) Containerisation
6 346 (23.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 309 (21.41%) Mentoring
8 290 (20.10%) Event-Driven
9 287 (19.89%) Test Automation
10 284 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
11 279 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 273 (18.92%) AI
13 241 (16.70%) Infrastructure as Code
14 185 (12.82%) Computer Science
15 181 (12.54%) Scrum
16 173 (11.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 161 (11.16%) Coaching
18 158 (10.95%) Clean Code
19 157 (10.88%) Technical Leadership
20 149 (10.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 466 (32.29%) Java
2 399 (27.65%) Python
3 304 (21.07%) SQL
4 285 (19.75%) JavaScript
5 272 (18.85%) C#
6 233 (16.15%) TypeScript
7 135 (9.36%) Go
8 51 (3.53%) Scala
9 46 (3.19%) C++
10 44 (3.05%) PHP
11 39 (2.70%) Bash
12 32 (2.22%) C
13 31 (2.15%) Ruby
14 23 (1.59%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.32%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.25%) PowerShell
16 18 (1.25%) Rust
17 17 (1.18%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.76%) Groovy
19 9 (0.62%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 192 (13.31%) Degree
2 146 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 109 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 95 (6.58%) SC Cleared
5 56 (3.88%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (1.66%) CISSP
11 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
12 13 (0.90%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.83%) CISM
14 8 (0.55%) PhD
15 7 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.42%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.79%) QA
2 32 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 30 (2.08%) GDPR
4 27 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.52%) NIST
7 16 (1.11%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.69%) NCSC
10 9 (0.62%) GRC
11 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.42%) IFRS
12 6 (0.42%) WCAG
13 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.28%) SLA
15 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.14%) SEPA
17 1 (0.069%) EMIR
System Software
1 433 (30.01%) Docker
2 13 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) Firmware
4 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.069%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 456 (31.60%) Kubernetes
2 266 (18.43%) Terraform
3 82 (5.68%) Ansible
4 78 (5.41%) Grafana
5 44 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.08%) Argo
7 19 (1.32%) Kibana
7 19 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.69%) Puppet
9 9 (0.62%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.49%) Cilium
11 4 (0.28%) Istio
11 4 (0.28%) Packer
11 4 (0.28%) Rancher
12 3 (0.21%) Nagios
13 2 (0.14%) MIIS
13 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.069%) Podman
Vendors
1 141 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.50%) Google
3 48 (3.33%) Oracle
4 45 (3.12%) Typelevel
5 25 (1.73%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 14 (0.97%) AppDynamics
8 14 (0.97%) IBM
9 12 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 12 (0.83%) SAP
10 11 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (0.76%) Splunk
11 10 (0.69%) Cisco
12 9 (0.62%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.55%) Databricks
14 7 (0.49%) Adobe
14 7 (0.49%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.42%) Juniper
15 6 (0.42%) Software AG